Third moderator sought, and a note to all members

[ftmichael.livejournal.com]

At the risk of sounding really foolish, it's come to nezchan's and my attention that we're both white. This makes us less able to recognise and adequately address the concerns of members of colour in this community. I, for one, see this as a big problem, and am kind of feeling like an idiot at the moment for not really recognising it earlier (white guilt: it's what's for dinner). After discussing, nezchan and I have decided that we'd like to have a third moderator who is a person of colour. Please note that this new moderator will not be the token one who's in charge of handling race-related concerns within the community, while nezchan and I sit back and ignore it or take notes trying to learn. We want to work as a team with the new moderator, who hopefully will bring an added sensitivity and consciousness that I think we would really benefit from.

Obviously this is the internet and we need to work on an honour system, but I'm asking for volunteers or nominations - nominations must be accepted by the nominated person - to be that third moderator. Volunteers/nominees should please be people of colour only. Please leave a comment here if you'd like to volunteer or nominate someone else.


Additionally, I want to state for everyone that you should please always come to us with any questions or concerns you may have regarding the community. There is an e-mail address in the community userinfo for just that purpose. That's our job; please help us do it to the best of our abilities.